Star Trek: Bridge Commander Forum

Hello everyone, I'm trying to install and run Star Trek Bridge Commander on crossover for my Intel based HP Chromebook. Any step by step guide would be appreciated. Thank you.
Ps. I did get as far as downloading the necessary file patch for the game but it crashes on start up giving me a message saying "Unable to find a valid installation of Star Trek Bridge Commander. The installer will now exit."

Have you read the guide in
https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/tips/star-trek-bridge-commander
?

Yes I did, but I was confused on how to get to that point. When I tried to look for a step by step kind of guide, I was only able to find the one for Mac users. How do you create bottle use.reg for Chromebook?

I didn't try it, so I may be wrong. BUT the guide does not say to create a bottle user.reg.

It says
1) Install to a XP bottle. (i.e. you must create a bottle, not any kind, but a XP bottle, give it any name)
2) apply the patch from the site
3) EDIT user.reg. As far as I remember, the file is probably in the \windows\ or \windows\system\ or \windows\system32\ folder.

Here are a couple of tips for following the Mac steps on a Chromebook:

1) CrossOver (and wine) contain a graphical way to edit user.reg (which means the same thing as editing the registry key). You can open the registry key editor with CrossOver ChromeOS by:
1) Clicking once on the icon of the bottle and then clicking "Manage your_bottle_name"
2) Clicking on the blue arrow next to the launch options to list them all and selecting "Launch Command Shell"
3) When the terminal window opens, type "regedit" and hit enter to open the registry key editor
4) You can then add the registry keys from the tips & tricks page (dinput and dinput8) as "String Values" using the tutorial here.

My personal advice would be to try changing these registry keys and then potentially following this tutorial which touches other registry keys as well: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/tips/star-trek-bridge-commander/overcoming-the-black-screen-of-death.

The second part of the tips& tricks instructions involves copying dlls directly from a Windows XP installation. Those instructions are several years old and we are constantly improving how our dlls function compared to Windows native dlls, so this step might not help you any. In case you do follow this route, here is a tutorial on how to access the CrossOver bottles in a terminal on a Chromebook. CrossOver bottles are stored in /data/data/com.codeweavers.cxoffice/files/prefixes so you would navigate there instead of the address in the tutorial.

I hope this helps you out a bit. It would be interesting if you get this working and good luck!

Thanks,
Anna

Hey everyone, thank you so much for all the help. Very much appreciated =)